Pink Lilium lophophorum?

[arisaema]

Does anyone have a picture of a pink Lilium lophophorum (other than this one)? My own plant looks like it's finally going to flower, and I'm curious as to what I should expect.

[Lesley Cox]

Well if that's L. lophophorum - and it looks like it - you should probably expect something just like that.

[Magnar]

Mine are all yellow.

[arisaema]

I was afraid it would end up being one of those elusive plants only once seen on a 10 y.o. Chinese photograph - what you order is certainly no guarantee for what you get, tho as I was hopeful as Paul Christian has been peddling them in the past...

[Tony Willis]

that is a picture from the Chen yi website and the true colour could be anything. Ihave had L. lophophorum from her and it was yellow. It nearly died after flowering and is down to a couple of scales which I hope will survive

[Diane Clement]

I have had "pink L lophophorum" several times from her and it has been yellow every time, although quite different forms, one taller than usual, one with greenish yellow flowers.  Keep hoping ...

[arisaema]

Too bad... The flower in Chen Yi's pic looks wilted, could it have faded to that colour?

[ArneM]

Paul Christian sold it some years ago as well and used the same picture from above. Has anyone obtained that form from him?

[WimB]

I bought the pink one from Paul Christian two years ago (I didn't have the yellow form until a week ago (Thanks Bjornar ) but it has not yet flowered and it doesn't seem to want to flower this year either. Maybe next year??

[arisaema]

I bought the pink one from Paul Christian two years ago

Can you remember if the bulb had any roots when you got it? I'm curious if they were grown on for a year in the UK, or just given a new price tag and sent straight out again It most certainly cannot have been flowering sized, as PC's description claims... Mine came from Chen Yi in Nov. 06.

[WimB]

I bought the pink one from Paul Christian two years ago

Can you remember if the bulb had any roots when you got it? I'm curious if they were grown on for a year in the UK, or just given a new price tag and sent straight out again It most certainly cannot have been flowering sized, as PC's description claims... Mine came from Chen Yi in Nov. 06.

Bjørnar,

I'm not sure but I think it didn't have any roots at all. It was a very small bulb and it was miserable for two years. This year is the first year it seems to have grown quite a bit but certainly not flowering size 

Don't forget to post a picture of it here when it flowers (pink or not).

[arisaema]

I'm not sure but I think it didn't have any roots at all. It was a very small bulb and it was miserable for two years. This year is the first year it seems to have grown quite a bit but certainly not flowering size 

Then that's a pretty cheeky mark-up... One bulb from Chen Yi would have cost him about £2.30 in 2006/07 - that's £8.50 profit after VAT Make sure you complain if it turns out to be yellow flowered! They've always needed a couple of years to settle in here as well, ironically they're almost as quick from seed to flowers as they are from bulbs.

[gote]

I have also bought "pink" lopophorum but no pink has flowered. Most of them have had open flowers only two had lantern shape. Unlike stated in some books they can have several flowers if well fed.
Göte

[arisaema]

I finally realized where Chen Yi got the "pink" from...

[Diane Clement]

I finally realized where Chen Yi got the "pink" from...   

Very interesting.  I have had this many times, it's always been yellow, although sometimes the taller open flowered form.  (oh I just realised I said that on this thread last year, well the story is the same.) 
I was beginning to think the pink form was a figment of her imagination, but it does exist!